>> While you are in a spending mode, have a look at 'Amnesia'; excellent remover of unwanted stuff

Maybe I used the wrong term "unwanted". But if you don't know 'what' to delete, how can you do any cleanup? And if it's not wanted, why bother?

Amnesia works by dragging in the unwanted .app file into its window; even dragging an enveloping folder will work. 

Then, all the subsidiary files attached to it are located and shown. E.g. its .plist files. There is no point in letting them hang around.

You then decide whether to trash everything associated with the mail App,  or leave everything untouched.

'AppZapper' does the same thing but I feel Amnesia is more reliable.
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On 13/01/2011, at 8:09 AM, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:

> On 12.01.2011, at 02:14, Brian Ferguson wrote:
> 
>> 
>> May I recommend you consider most carefully the purchase of Disk Warrior?
> 
> I feel that is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The computer is actually running fine, I’m just having this issue with the desktop icons once or twice a week. I use DIM 2.0.1 to memorize Icon positions so I can restore Icon positions again with only one click when this happens.
> 
>> 
>> After looking at the list of your third-party applications, therein lies a serious problem, in my opinion. Even though I've only heard of one of them, they just look suspicious.
> 
> Not really, they are all great programs that I can wholeheartedly recommend. 
> 
>> 
>> While you are in a spending mode, have a look at 'Amnesia'; excellent remover of unwanted stuff.
> 
> First I must know then WHAT to delete. :-)
> 
> I use AppCleaner and Find Any File when deleting unwanted stuff.
> 
> 
> Þorvarður Davíðsson
> OS X 10.6.5
> MacBook Pro 17’’